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BBC Three Series ‘Boarders’ Exposes Dirty Little Secrets – and Hidden Racism – of Britain’s Private Schools: ‘These Posh White Guys Do Some Crazy Things’
BBC Three series ‘Boarders,’ created by Daniel Lawrence Taylor and starring Josh Tedeku and Jodie Campbell, takes on Britain’s private schools.
In comedy-drama “Boarders,” competing at Series Mania, five Black students are offered life-changing scholarships to prestigious private school St Gilbert’s, struggling to rebuild its image following a massive PR crisis. “Comedy gets people engages, it makes them feel happy, but it’s also a great way to push forward conversation points that many are dreading. While there have been others shows reveling in uncomfortable humor – “Michaela Coel did it in ‘Chewing Gum’ or ‘I May Destroy You,’ we’ve seen it in ‘Atlanta’,” says Daniel Lawrence Taylor – it was crucial to stuff it with meaningful details.
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